The cure for the common dinner! The Dinnertime Ninja fights the evils of boring and uninspired meals, the temptations of fast food, and navigates the common pitfalls of striving to feed your family healthy meals while maintaining your sanity.

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

It's been a while since I've shared an appetizer from Concetta, the Party Ninja. This is a very savory and robustly flavored finger food that is perfect for a cocktail or dinner party. It would be excellent with a nice frosty micro brewed beer to cut through some of the tartness of the mustard and bring out the flavors of the rye bread. My current favorite beer of all time is Sierra Nevada Kellerweis.

On the stove put olive oil, onions, caraway seeds, salt and pepper in pan and saute at med to med-high for 20 to 25 minutes or until onions are soft and translucent. Add Sherry and cook for another 2 minutes, set mixture aside.

Toast Rye bread for 3 minutes each side. Once cool, spread mustard on each slice, add onion mixture and cheese on top. Put on a cookie or baking sheet in oven for another 10 to 15 minutes until cheese is melted. Or, you can put oven on broil until the cheese is slightly browned.

Well, what are you waiting for? Summer is coming to an end, so get your party on!!

Disclaimer

I'm a self-proclaimed ninja. I did not go to any sort of secret ninja training camp. I am also not a nutritionist, nor a professional chef. So please don't take what I say as medical advice, or culinary expertise. But feel free to imagine me in the kitchen in full ninja garb, jumping to dodge a remote control car and landing perfectly balanced on one hand just in time to stir the risotto. I'm ok with that.

What I am, is a real person with a life and a job and a family and twenty extra pounds that showed up when I hit 33. And a person with enough education and sense that I feel obligated to feed my family healthy meals and teach them healthy habits. I also realize I need to do that for myself.

But if you have kids, you know that often times your own needs get shoved aside in effort to meet those of all the short people around you. So in the struggle to do what is right for my and my family's well-being, and in the meantime actually enjoy preparing and eating those meals, I have decided to go ninja on dinner!